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Anthropic raises $30B in Series G funding at $380B post-money valuation

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Re: Anthropic raises $30B in Series G funding at $380B post-money valuation

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Absolutely wild valuation given their lack of a moat isn't it?

Having a cutting edge model that requires tens of billions of dollars to train + a massive concentration of talent and experience + brand + one of, if not the best, coding experiences in Claude Code These are all moats.

Couldn’t their excellent model and coding experience generate another excellent coding CLI tool?

Re: Anthropic raises $30B in Series G funding at $380B post-money valuation

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Absolutely wild valuation given their lack of a moat isn't it?

Having a cutting edge model that requires tens of billions of dollars to train + a massive concentration of talent and experience + brand + one of, if not the best, coding experiences in Claude Code These are all moats.

> cutting edge model that requires tens of billions of dollars to train

seems like there are a lot of those out there these days, and the costs are falling

> a massive concentration of talent and experience

Apparently 3000 employees? There's plenty of talent to be found elsewhere. Plus employees can be hired away.

> brand

meh.

> one of, if not the best, coding experiences

Seems easy enough to replicate, given how quickly they built it.

Re: Anthropic raises $30B in Series G funding at $380B post-money valuation

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Kind of amusing that there is basically no mention of their original mission at all here.

What was their original mission? My sense is that startup mission statements are ~meaningless. Builders try to build great things that lots of other people will find valuable.

>What was their original mission?

Beat OpenAI. The Founders came from OpenAI so there was obviously some disagreement about the direction there or they simply wanted more control.

Re: Anthropic raises $30B in Series G funding at $380B post-money valuation

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Next year 140 billion the following year 1.4 trillion, 14 trillion the year after that?

Pay attention to the outflow of tech investment in the stock market. That money is going to move into OpenAI and Anthropic IPOs. The valuations will be as big you are thinking because the market believes these companies will represent an entire basket of startups.

Might as well long NVDA?

Re: Anthropic raises $30B in Series G funding at $380B post-money valuation

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Pay attention to the outflow of tech investment in the stock market. That money is going to move into OpenAI and Anthropic IPOs. The valuations will be as big you are thinking because the market believes these companies will represent an entire basket of startups.

Might as well long NVDA?

There are many bitter lessons ...

Re: Anthropic raises $30B in Series G funding at $380B post-money valuation

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How are they not overvalued? At some point OSS will be sufficient for most businesses, what then?

These companies are spending billions on custom datasets for a gazillion of valuable tasks and are clamping down on exfil for distillation. It's not guaranteed open source models will continue to keep pace.

Re: Anthropic raises $30B in Series G funding at $380B post-money valuation

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Anthropic is the clear category leader in enterprise AI Citation needed.

As the clear category leader in HN posting, I agree

Google has an edge, always a "personal experience" comment about leaving OpenAI/Anthropic in the dust every time new model gets posted.

Re: Anthropic raises $30B in Series G funding at $380B post-money valuation

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

What was their original mission? My sense is that startup mission statements are ~meaningless. Builders try to build great things that lots of other people will find valuable.

To maximise shareholder value.

Technically speaking, it's to maximize shareholder value while serving the public interest. They're a public benefit corporation.

Re: Anthropic raises $30B in Series G funding at $380B post-money valuation

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Next year 140 billion the following year 1.4 trillion, 14 trillion the year after that?

Pay attention to the outflow of tech investment in the stock market. That money is going to move into OpenAI and Anthropic IPOs. The valuations will be as big you are thinking because the market believes these companies will represent an entire basket of startups.

It Is more likely that people are cashing out very liquid assets (tech stocks) to pay back their loans in Yen as interest rates are rising over there.

Tech stocks with all the hype are second only to crypto in terms of how easy and fast are to sell (hence BTC dropped and now tech stocks IMHO).

Btw, I was too young to fully remember, but wasn't the year before the dot com crash also full of IPOs?

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